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Article #799Re: ufology not a "pseudoscience" -- wake up folks
From: David Govett
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1988 17:49
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1988 17:49
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> A bibliography does not truth make. > > Has no one ever heard of Occam's Razor? Statements like (paraphrased) > "they released lots of UFO documents that were de-classified" (probably > Air force blue book stuff, classified more or less by default back then) > "therefor we'll probably soon see the existence of alien bodies on ice > confirmed" sound an awful lot like believing truth is what one wants it to > be. It sounds like you've made up your mind (at least subconciously) that > UFOs exist, and you're searching desperately for things to back up your > beliefs (so you can justify them to yourself). You are a lot less fanatic > in your suspension of disbelief than most such I have encountered. You don't > seem to be saying "well, there are some unexplained things, and a few of those > might be caused by UFOs, so I'll see what evidence (EITHER way) I can find"; > you are saying "well, the skeptics can't find reasons for everything that > is unexplained, so they must be wrong, and UFO's/whatever MUST exist, so I'll > prove it". > > You don't approach investigation from a objective point of view, you go into > hoping that this time, you'll find proof (and all your toil and trouble will > not have been wasted). > How does one prove that something does not exist? .
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!octopus!avsd!govett From: govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett) Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: ufology not a "pseudoscience" -- wake up folks Message-ID: <34@avsd.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 88 17:49:34 GMT References: <9825@tekecs.TEK.COM> <521@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: Ampex Advanced Technology Division, Redwood City, CA Lines: 43